Our own federal government attacked a Chicago apartment building in the dead of night, indiscriminately pulling people from their beds, including US citizens. Some people were dragged naked into the street. This is political violence. These are Nazi tactics. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Unless healthcare and health insurance CEOs are in the US on work visas, it's not immigrants who are denying you access to healthcare

It still boggles my mind that Democrats keep trotting out messaging that sounds more AI than ChatGPT instead of just saying stuff like "Donald Trump is stealing healthcare money from your grandma and using it to pay ICE to beat her up if she protests"

"President Trump declared war on the United States the right way." —Ezra Klein, probably

I can tell that no one at @bart.gov is kinky because they decided to close the Red Line for scheduled maintenance on Folsom Sunday

If these fascists put the Nazi hatemonger Charlie Kirk on a coin, I will literally go get a bunch and dump them in a very deep body of water just to take them out of circulation. Or perhaps get them melted down and turned into a bust of Marsha P Johnson in an act of civil disobedience

Typically associated with severe thunderstorms (though not in this case, it would seem), mammatus type clouds are a rare sight in the Bay Area #CAwx @nws.noaa.gov

"Stop calling us Nazis," says JD Vance as he uses Nazi-style propaganda about the need to "protect" women and girls www.epoch-magazine.com/post/the-jew...

Even money that Trump comes out with a Trump brand acetaminophen that he claims leaves out the "dangerous," "autism-causing" ingredients in Tylenol

I love that the Bay Area is so nerdy that within literally 1 minute of the earthquake posting, there were already 6 "Did You Feel It?" reports from the public. And, yes, I was one of them. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

There's hope for our democracy yet. But we have to push back and fight. Let's turn this glimmer into something greater.

If you want to encourage tech companies to leave the US, discourage smart people from ever coming here, and impoverish the US in the process, then this is a *great* policy Seriously, did Xi and and Putin write this? www.reuters.com/business/med...

So are we required to be sad now about the Nazis whose faces got melted by the Ark of the Covenant? Will we be declaring a day of mourning for that beefy bald Nazi who who got eaten by the propeller?

Thankfully, Sophie Hahn's opinions aren't something Berkeley has to worry about anymore. But given everything that's going on, this 2017 opinion piece she wrote about how far right thugs were coming to Berkeley because of "economic distress" has become even more darkly hilarious

I'd like to think a lot of people are learning tonight that worries about social media and AI polluting the information environment were actually legacy/corporate media distractions from the ungodly consolidation, distortion, and consent manufacturing they were already engaging in, but probably nah

Going to a Berkeley City meeting where everyone is being given two minutes to speak, and it's one in a series of 4–6 meetings where people will get similar chances to speak, and there are opportunities to email and take surveys, and claiming your "free speech" is being violated is deceitful bullshit

Remember in V for Vendetta when they black-bagged and kidnapped Stephen Fry's character for making fun of the dictator on his comedy show and then Fry's character was summarily executed because he was in possession of a Quran? We're basically on that timeline

Ezra seems (pretends?) not to understand that the far right's 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲 goal is for us to 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 They want LGBTIQ+ people and non-white people gone or even dead. Their whole thing is that they 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 His paycheck depends upon him being obtuse about this

Pretty much all of the US's problems can be traced to politicians who are more willing to lose their principles (indeed, lose our very democracy) than lose their jobs We need more leaders like Engardio If you're not willing to lose a race by standing up for principle, don't run for office at all

GO BACK TO YOUR COUCH JD!

Chuck Chuck!

It's hard for me to understand how cowardly and unprincipled one must be as a university leader to just cave in to the demands of a wannabe dictator like this People literally died on beaches and god-forsaken cratered moonscapes to fight fascism, and these folks give into it with scarcely a whimper

"When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles." I don't actually like the 𝘋𝘶𝘯𝘦 series that much, but Frank Herbert really nailed it in this passage

Anyone who can't fathom why 1 in 6 Americans and 4 in 10 18-29 year-olds think Luigi Mangione murdering a United Healthcare CEO was "acceptable" or "somewhat acceptable" should read this article People lose faith in democracy when decades of politics fail to fix basic stuff like this

I will never stop fighting 𝗙𝗢𝗥 the America that made 𝘒𝘗𝘰𝘱 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘏𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 and 𝗔𝗚𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧 the America that put Korean visitors in chains.

We need to stop dealing with core MAGA as if they are anything but arch fascists who want those who disagree with them dead They don't care about consistency, let alone honesty: For them, anything less than grief that an evil bigot is dead is punishable, but saying the homeless should die is A-ok

"Say it loud, say it clear: Immigrants are welcome here!" "Um, can we make room for them by building more housing here?" "No! Booooo!"

If Newsom doesn't sign this, we'll know for sure that all his anti-Trump pomp is just so much preening and self-aggrandizement

Remember, it's only political violence if it happens to someone on the right, otherwise it's just sparkling Second Amendment rights

I'm against the promotion of political violence, whether it's shooting someone you disagree with, calling transgender people a "middle finger to god" and saying they need to be "dealt with," saying that schoolchildren should die for the Second Amendment, or threatening to go to war with Chicago

Thank you to all who contacted the AC Transit Board to urge the withdrawal of these risky (to put it lightly) grant applications. And a big thank you to @therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social and @sarahsyed.bsky.social for their tireless leadership! www.berkeleyside.org/2025/09/10/a...

The 52 is packed! These are just some of the transit riders that @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is apparently treating as a bargaining chips in his "negotiations" with the legislature over goodness knows what other things Tell @governor.ca.gov to approve the emergency loan to save Bay Area transit!

As if the NOFO weren't bad enough, take a look at the grant agreement 🤬 Sections B ii and C ix are horrific, and appear to require AC Transit give ICE unfettered access to facilities and personnel and act as kidnapping collaborators, possibly breaking California law www.dhs.gov/sites/defaul...

"It's not fair to judge people who believe it's fair to kidnap people for not being white" by Ross Douthat (Am I doing this right, @nytpitchbot.bsky.social?)

Breaking this out again today Democrats (*glares at @schumer.senate.gov*) need to shut down the government when the continuing resolution comes up in a few weeks When an authoritarian is trying to consolidate power, you have to throw yourself on the gears of that machine

Everyone call/contact Gavin Newsom's office today and tell them that Gavin breaking his promise to fund Bay Area public transit would be a shitty and very Trumpy thing for him to do (916) 445-2841 www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

Absurd we're compelled to rally at 9am on a Mon to save public transit from @gavinnewsom.bsky.social's broken promises, but here we are Unless you want drastic cuts like no BART at night, once an hour service, closed lines/stations tell @governor.ca.gov to approve the emergency loan for Bay transit

Rallying to save Bay Area transit! with @therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social @rebeccaforec.bsky.social

Gavin Newsom cares only about Gavin Newsom Exhibit 7342-A(iii) Screw transit riders, screw the people who will face worse traffic, screw transit workers, screw the climate and air quality, amirite?

It appears AC Transit is poised to open the door to DHS and ICE engaging in immigration enforcement (and "election security"?) at its facilities. Tucked in the agreement for this grant are new provisions around the "border crisis" and "election security" actransit.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...

Berkeley vacancy truthers in shambles today. Turns out Berkeley actually has an 𝘶𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘸 vacancy rate of 1.6% and that most of the vacancies are in smaller buildings, not the big new apartments that NIMBYs always claim are sitting empty for... reasons www.berkeleyside.org/2025/09/04/b...

At this point I feel like Trump could try to order the cities emptied so that everyone can go "revitalize" fallow farms and abandoned factories in rural areas and SCOTUS would say "sure," the GOP would say "Hurray! Let them starve!" and Congressional Dems would call it a "distraction."

A hill I will die on is that all the moral panic about social media's affect on kids' mental health was actually a way for adults to distract from and absolve themselves of all the ways they have failed children, from school shootings, to housing, to income inequality, to climate change

I really wish protest organizers would adhere to a rule of no more than 20 minutes of speakers before a march starts I'll be blunt: standing around listening to people with varying levels of rhetorical skill preach to the choir is BORING And older and disabled folks can't always stand that long

God, I miss Molly Ivins In high school, I couldn't wait for her column to come out each week; and it was her descriptions of Berkeley that inspired me to go to Cal Her brilliance and wit had a truly outsize influence on my politics and the course of my life

If we don't change direction at the FDA and CDC *fast*, then "Make American Healthy Again" may someday be viewed as America's version of the "Great Leap Forward", whereby millions of people die needlessly because anti-science whackadoos destroy the basic systems that keep people alive

Not all shade is bad, tall buildings are good, yada yada yada, build more housing

I'm really flattered that I always seem to manage to get under Tom "no replies" Nichols very thin skin Dude, Republicans used bigotry, lies, dark money, and a corporate owned mainstream media to win elections "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth," transphobia, Elon's millions. These aren't just "words"